On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 12:23:45PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> You should hook both of these syscalls up even if the config option
> that enables them usually is not, or cannot currently be, enabled.
> 
> The cond_syscall()'s will make sure they always link properly and
> provide a -ENOSYS implementation.
> 
> Hooking them up makes it easier to check future missed cases without
> us having to add a plethora of ifdefs to the missing syscall checks
> for each platform.

I haven't looked at the missing syscall check implementation, but it seems
like it's poorly designed if we have to add ifdefs for each arch.  Why not
allow arches a mechanism to state which syscalls they intentionally
don't implement?
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